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    Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    This post reminds me of a time long ago (mid '80s), when a friend of mine frequently traveled into some of the neighborhoods on Detroit's west side. One time he dragged me along and said "You've got to see this."


    With that we drove in to a residential side street and feasted our eyes on a twisted mass of bright red metal and spider-webbed glass. It took a minute, but I finally processed that what I was looking at was at one time a FIAT X-1/9. Someone had a grand old time with a tire-iron, sledgehammer, or something.


    All I could do was look toward my friend and ask "Were you trying to make me cry?"

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    I've never seen an abandoned '79 Corolla. For that matter, it's been a while since I saw a '79 Corolla in any condition.


    Maybe this town is too small.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    I think they need to bring one of those psychics there to "read" this car and find out what the hell all happened to it to bring it to this sad pass.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    Growing up in Akron, all of Northeast Ohio was fertile ground for finding derelict sports cars like this. Stripping the useful parts and/or flipping the hulks to aspiring restorershelped pay my way through college. Of course, it was rusty 356's, Alfas and E-Types back then, but this picture brings back fond memories...
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    I usually take these lists with many, many grains of salt, because Oakland is always at or near the top of any Top Scariest Places You Should Fear And Arm Yourself Heavily As A Result list. Oakland is actually a great town for the most part, and I've lived trouble-free in several neighborhoods that the suburban folks consider to be blood-soaked Here There Be Monsters Zones. If you're not gangbanging and/or dope-dealing, and you stay out of the genuinely dangerous 'hoods, no problem.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    12/01/08

    @Murilee Martin: This is true even of Newark, NJ, which has a few attractive, livable neighborhoods despite murder rates approaching 100 a year.


    Per capita, Camden, NJ, is the scariest. For a city of less 100,000 to land in the top three for so many years is quite a feat.

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    12/01/08

    @Murilee Martin: I always felt the same way about living in Baltimore, when I lived there. Granted, my house was broken into once, in the 3 years that I lived there, but as that transpired about a month after moving there, I always assumed it was the movers who did it. Of course, no proof = no arrest. :-(
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    Was the car parked there for only 15 minutes before the shot was taken?
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    Image of Drujon Drujon
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    I bet the rims are on a '92 Grand Am
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/01/08

    @Drujon: Brings back memories of my later childhood, going places with my mother and her friend in a white '93 Grand Am four-door with a maroon interior that had never been cleaned (complete with change embedded in the carpet; we bought a spice Little Tree about five minutes after the beginning of our first trip), a leaky gas tank, and a radio that would switch stations when you hit a bump. Marianne had borrowed the car while her truck was in the shop; she eventually gave it back to the owner when he wanted to try and sell it (it was his wife's old car).


    And I'd bet the thief has a '95 Cavalier. With the black plastic bumpers.

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    In Youngstown's defence, there was probably one that looked like that in Beverly Hills, in 1980.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    As a resident of the Cleveland-Akron-Youngstown metroplex, I am glad to know we are nationally recognized as #15. Makes me not feel like a snob when, last time I got lost in Youngstown (@ 2:30 am) I drove like a maniac, not even stopping at red lights, to get the HELL out of there. This looks to be one of the better sections......


    Be sure and check out Springsteens "Youngstown". Great song and local anthem.

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    12/01/08

    @Curves: Wait a minute...2:30 in the morning, blowing through red lights and stop signs, Springsteen's "Youngstown" blaring out the windows?


    That was you?

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    12/01/08

    @MajorKong: Yes, I was praying a cop would stop me or at least give chase. I would have either gotten directions or at least a police escort. (I just kept driving north as I knew sooner or later I would cross 80, or drive into Lake Erie and either was better than where I was.)
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    Olde English 800 labels means it's an upscale vacant lot. The poor neighborhoods don't even have the label still on the bottles because the kids are so hungry, they gnaw them off.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    I think the Scorpion is more like Mickey's. Sublime at first, a nightmare after an hour.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    What makes you think that Scorpion is abandoned? I've seen a number of PCH Lancias in my day that would rival that one for degree of difficulty.
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    12/01/08

    @graverobber- My Yugo Nova!: Yeah, where's the text for this picture? Isn't this your average Craig's List pic?
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    12/01/08

    @NovaloadMissesPolar: I'll have a go:


    ---


    *******1978 fIAT LANCIA SCORPOIN********$1400!!!1!

    RARE LANCIA sCORPIO LIEK THE CAR IN hERBY GOES TO MONTY CARLO. JUST NEEDS WHEELS AND TIERS. HAVE MOST OF TEH ENGINE AND TRANNY PARTS AT MY BROTHERS HOUSE. CALL ME AND ARANNGE PICK UP DURING DAYLITE HOURS, PLZ. NEEDS BE GONE BY MONDAY

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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    Assault: 85
    Murder: 4
    Rape: 58
    Motor Vehicle Theft: 134


    Sadly, this motor vehicle constitutes one count of each of the above (they never tell you about the double-counting)

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    Image of nick2ny nick2ny
    12/01/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: nice once. although i got interested, checked the link, and realized that those are actually the rankings. so it is 134th for vehicle theft, 4th for murders, and there aren't many assaults, dig?


    the winner was st. louis, with the following rankings:


    Rankings in Crime

    Assault: 18

    Murder: 1

    Rape: 90

    Motor Vehicle Theft: 12

    Robbery: 29

    Burglary: 2

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    Image of mechimike mechimike
    12/01/08

    @nick2ny: I drove through _East_ St. Louis this summer. Boy, that was scary. And that's coming from a guy who spent a lot of time in Southeast D.C. The difference was, SE DC was scary because of the people you saw. E. St. Louis was scary because of what you _couldn't_ see.


    At first blush, I thought that Lancia was a DMC product. Then I saw the rust. Of course, if a Delorian could rust anywhere, it could rust in Ohio.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/01/08

    @nick2ny: Yep, missed that at first glance.


    I always think these stats are bunk, especially in rape/assault/murder, because they don't exclude domestic and gang numbers. In other words, why should an outsider or visitor really be that concerned when a closed-off group commits violent crime within itself? It's a blight, sure, but it paints an inaccurate picture. Obviously car theft isn't really applicable to that.


    So it's easy to see these stats and think "I'm going to get killed just walking down the street!" Personally, I'm a lot more concerned with random violence among people who don't know each other.

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    Image of nick2ny nick2ny
    12/01/08

    @The Name's Ash78, Housewares: you're thinking too much!!! good point though. I always read your comments and think, man i have to stay on my numeracy game, you imaginary options trader.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    12/01/08

    @nick2ny: I'm long on pork belly futures in the short term, depending on what my wife grabs at the grocery store today.
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    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    Herbie's Lovebug, eh?
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    12/01/08

    In reply to Abandoned Lancia Scorpion Makes Youngstown, Ohio 15th Most Dangerous City In America
    No doubt destroyed in a pique of rage by the former owner when passers-by kept giving him thumbs-up for his "sweet '85 Shelby Charger"....
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